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Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer known to be the first European to have landed in North…
Scientist and early advocate for industrial uses for farm crops (bio-energy). Carver earned a…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Gilgamesh is the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an Akkadian poem that is considered…
Nefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her…
Democritus ("chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace,…
Muhammad was the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and God's…
John Dalton was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his…
Asia + Oceania
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Fu Xi or Fu Hsi of the San Huang Dynasty, was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns of…
Cheng Yang of the Shang, Chinese Emperor, said to have reigned BC 1766. The Shang Dynasty or…
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn…
Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in…
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father…